As is, the events view offers a very convenient timeline-like display, which is very handy for remembering events in a convenient chronological order.
I have also been lately using data-driven categories to enumerate a tree branch of my events, which I find, in the present state of IMatch, to be necessary because I can - this way - make use of the search bar for a more advanced query, provided that I've also mapped the event into a metadata tag or an attribute. Also, I can narrow my scope of events with which to search by restricting that data-driven category to some other category.
With my above outlined scenario, the event view could be, in my opinion, more functional, if its filtering did have some of the more advanced capabilities, found in the search bar. If not, it would at least be helpful, if, like data-driven categories, there were the possibility to 'clamp' this event view to a category, thereby narrowing the scope to more relevant criteria under review at the given moment.